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English to English adjective
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Somewhat worn or damaged by having been kept for a time in a shop. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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worn or faded from being on display in a store | | Example: shopworn merchandise at half price
source: wordnet30
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repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | | Example: bromidic sermons
his remarks were trite and commonplace
hackneyed phrases
a stock answer
repeating threadbare jokes
parroting some timeworn axiom
the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
source: wordnet30
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